Bader drives in two as Yankees rally late to beat Rays
ST. PETERSBURG. Fla. (AP) — Harrison Bader stayed ready on his off day for a necessary second.
Bader flared a two-run single throughout a three-run eighth inning, and the New York Yankees rallied from a two-run deficit to beat the foremost league-leading Tampa Bay Rays 3-2 on Saturday.
“He’s a lot of fun to be around.” Yankees supervisor Aaron Boone mentioned. “He loves to play the game. He loves to compete. Today he’s off, and he’s ready to go the whole game knowing that that situation might be coming up.”
Tampa Bay had been 22-0 when scoring first, matching the 1884 St. Louis Maroons of the Union Association for the longest successful streak opening a season when scoring first, in line with the Elias Sports Bureau. The Rays are 18-3 at Tropicana Field.
A day after hitting a three-run homer, Bader singled as a pinch hitter within the seventh and put the Yankees forward 3-2 on his 179-foot, 64.2 mph hit off Kevin Kelly (3-1).
“I was kidding him, I said `you couldn’t have lobbed them out there better than that,” Boone mentioned.
Anthony Rizzo singled in opposition to Jalen Beeks, Gleyber Torres singled in opposition to Kelly and DJ LeMahieu, after falling behind 0-2 within the depend, sliced a slider down the right-field line for an opposite-field RBI double.
Willie Calhoun popped out and Bader, who made his season debut Tuesday after recovering from an indirect damage, looped successful into quick proper subject.
Ron Marninaccio (1-1) went 1 1/3 scoreless innings to get the win earlier than Ian Hamilton labored round Luke Raley’s two-out double within the ninth for his first main league save, retiring Isaac Paredes on a game-ending flyout.
Tampa Bay went 1 for 12 with runners in scoring place.
“That big hit just didn’t come easy today,” supervisor Kevin Cash mentioned.
New York (18-16) moved again inside 9 video games of the Rays (27-7) within the AL East with its first victory this season (1-14) when trailing after seven innings. Tampa Bay had been 23-0 when forward after seven.
The Yankees are with out sluggers Aaron Judge (strained proper hip), Giancarlo Stanton (left hamstring pressure) and Josh Donaldson (strained proper hamstring).
The introduced crowd was season-high 27,078 at Tropicana Field because the Rays opened up the usually closed higher deck for the weekend sequence.
Tampa Bay took a 2-0 lead on Manuel Margot’s two-run double off Domingo German within the first, a 107.9 mph shot that went between the legs of LeMahieu at third base.
Tampa Bay starter Drew Rasmussen scattered two hits in 5 2/3 scoreless innings.
Beeks labored out of a second and third one-out jam within the seventh by hanging out Aaron Hicks and Kyle Higashioka. Hicks, booed by Yankees followers in attendance, went 0 for 4. He is batting .135 (7 for 52) with no extra-base hits, one RBI and 15 strikeouts.
NEW POSITION
Isiah Kiner-Falefa began in heart subject for the Yankees however made his first skilled look in proper after Bader hit for Jake Bauers. IKF has performed each place within the majors besides first base. His double within the eighth was first extra-base hit this season.
CLUBHOUSE RACKET
The Yankees clubhouse was additional boisterous postgame, however there was extra to it than the win.
“I think it’s probably more Kentucky Derby,” Boone mentioned with a smile.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Yankees: Boone expects Judge to return from a strained proper hip on Tuesday.
Rays: LF Randy Arozarena was the DH, at some point after his knee made contact with Yankees 2B Gleyber Torres on a slide into second and went 1 for 4. … 2B Brandon Lowe began after lacking two video games with again soreness and was hitless in 4 at-bats. He was restricted to 65 video games final season as a result of again points.
UP NEXT
Yankees: RHP Gerrit Cole (5-0) will begin Sunday’s sequence finale. He went 1-1 with a 1.07 ERA in 4 outings in opposition to Tampa Bay final season.
Rays: LHP Josh Fleming (0-0) will begin or comply with an opener. He had a profitable bullpen session Friday after taking an 113.1 mph infield single off his left foot Tuesday.
